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Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 – 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue.[1][2]
Lev Sverdlin | |
|---|---|
Sverdlin in Wait for Me, 1943 | |
| Born | Lev Naumovich Sverdlin 16 November 1901 |
| Died | 29 August 1969 (aged 67) |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, theater director and pedagogue |
| Years active | 1922–1969 |
Lev Sverdlin was born in Astrakhan to a Jewish family. He served in the Red Army from 1919 to 1922, in the latter year he entered the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. He began to appear in movies from 1924.
From 1938 to 1941, he worked as an actor in the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, then in Mayakovsky Theatre from 1943 to 1969.
He died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow at the age of 67, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | By the Bluest of Seas | Yusuf the fisherman | |
| Circus | Circus spectator | ||
| 1937 | The Defense of Volotchayevsk | Colonel Ushijima | |
| 1939 | Minin and Pozharsky | Grigory Orlov | |
| 1940 | Gorky 3: My Universities | Tatar guard | |
| 1942 | His Name Is Sukhe-Bator | Damdin Sükhbaatar | |
| 1943 | Nasreddin in Bukhara | Nasreddin | |
| Wait for Me | Mikhail Weinstein | ||
| The Front | Gaidar | ||
| David Bek | Russian ambassador | ||
| 1944 | Days and Nights | Colonel Protsenko | |
| The Wedding | Organ grinder | ||
| 1945 | Simple People | Akbashev representative | Uncredited; released in 1956 |
| 1946 | The White Fang | Matt | |
| Cruiser 'Varyag' | Japanese consul | ||
| 1948 | Tale of a True Man | Naumov | |
| 1949 | Alitet Leaves for the Hills | Alitet | |
| 1950 | Far from Moscow | Mikhail Borisovich Zalkind | |
| 1954 | A Tale of the Forest Giant | Vladimir Vasilyevich | |
| 1955 | The Road | Beimbetov | |
| 1956 | Different Fortunes | Nikolai Kapitonovich Ognev | |
| 1960 | It Was I Who Drew the Little Man | Supreme Liar | Voice |
| 1963 | The First Trolleybus | Svetlana's father | |
| All Remains to People | General manager | Uncredited | |
| 1967 | The Elusive Avengers | Semyon Budyonny |
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